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Designing Experiment with Watercolour and Pressed Leaves
The one good thing about making terrariums is that it is alive, and anything alive requires construction and maintenance, where cutting off excess leaves during installation or during pruning off overgrown leaves is unavoidable.
But since this is my new project JUNK2GLORY - Everything has second chances
Nothing is first hand discarded. It has to be first reconsidered for its reusability.
So what can I make use of tiny trimmed off Fittonia leaves?
Sewing that their "outstanding veins" are so unique and pretty, I kept it aside, pressed for several weeks, while waiting for inspiration.
Until recently, there has been a surge of YouTube short contents been popping in my feed teaching floral watercolour tips, which I am not really good at, seemed to be giving me a sign that I should give it a try and see the outcome.
Since last year I was blessed with this sketch book (where I gave one of them to an early dementia patient who loves to doodle), I went to acquire a student version of watercolour dry palettes and see if I could follow the simple tutorial to design something that I may be able to incorporate the pressed leaves as part of the design.
It wasn't super hard, neither was it easy. It took me a while to adjust the water consistency and to understand the paper texture, I managed to create this sample.
Using the pressed Fittonia leaves as the bigger leaves, the rest were drawn out immediately on the fly, then those leaves were carefully glued on the sketch.
What do you think?
Does look like a great idea for some simple hand drawn gift?
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I really missed this kind of activities, we always did this during my elementary days. By the way, those are very unique and attractive. You're very creative. 👏👏👍☺️
Such pretty colours. You chose the combination wellAN, KL, KT, MK
This is very pretty! You said you are just learning how to draw that? You are very talented! 👏
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Wow. This is very creative. I am not into drawings or other arts, but this one looks amazing to do. Hmmm. I might try this one at home once I have my free time :)
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This is a nice painting I am still struggling on how to paint flower petals.
Basic design. Nice.
I am sure with more practices they will look prettier. What's next after making these samples?
Oh I am so sorry for the late reply. Yes. School used to have a lot of these, but I was bad at watercolor. Now maybe I will slowly improve again. With the help of online tutorials
Will do
Thanks so much! Glad you liked the colour choice!
I am glad that it looked simple enough for you to give it a try! To tag me & @littlenewthings when you get around to try it out. Will definite come and have a look!
Thanks so much for the encouragement! Well, this isn't my first time using watercolor, but definitely it has been a while. A few decades at least, and I wasn't very good at it.
But for this type of flower painting, yes it is the first time. 😊
I guess we are all learning here. 😆
So far I only know flat ones like this one.
Eh... I do have some plan for something but probably need more practice first. 😅
Thanks for the encouragement!
Yes, will try it some other time.